Quote Originally Posted by kn4kk View Post
To start, I mained a healer in WoW since vanilla...so the transition to FFXIV as a WHM didn't seem too insane. First time I did Frontline I saw that all of my abilities changed...no biggy...I learned them, hotkeyed them...all good. Figured I would crush it....

Wrong.

I've done about 5-6 Frontlines now and I land almost dead last in healing and it's killing me trying to figure out why. The healing charts aren't even close as I'm a solid 1m healing behind the top 3 in most cases. I just did a frontline where a WHM was not only almost top healing but also top 10 in damage.

So...What in the hell am I doing wrong?!

Screenshot of the leaderboard from the frontline that lead to me posting in this forum...... https://imgur.com/a/nF0eZ5E

Thanks for the help!
1) Don't worry about your healing. Just heal whomever you can. Odds are you won't be healing most of the people in your party. You'll be healing those in your alliance.
2) Play objectives and fight on objectives. But if there's a large crowd, then you should heal in the back.
3) Use geography to your advantage. There's one map with the markets that have a lot of walls. You can hide behind the walls and most people won't even know you are there. It's very easy to take a base on this map, if you hide behind the walls.
4) Dish out as much damage as you can.
5) Use your sleep spell to cc people
6) Avoid death. Living is the key to winning any Frontlines map. Runaway if it seems like you are going to die.
7) Healing is hard against classes that have a buildup burst. Such as dancer. If a dancer bursts somebody down, then you probably won't get any heals off before they die. I do this all the time in Frontlines pvping as Dancer
8) Healers in pvp excel in small-scale content. You can shine in Feast or the new pvp mode that's coming out. A good healer in Feast can carry groups. A bad healer will make your group fail though lol